Comments on: Nokia CTO Rich Green Talks MeeGo, Symbian, Qt, Windows Phone and a new “disruptive platform”.

By: Frank MacGill

Frank MacGill — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:22:56 +0000

Rich Green might like MeeGo, but Microsoft doesn’t like it, so Elop doesn’t like it. Elop is poised to remove thousands of staff from Nokia’s payroll.

By: Frank MacGill

Frank MacGill — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:21:03 +0000

So, why do you think the board of Nokia recruited Elop?

By: Frank MacGill

Frank MacGill — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:20:13 +0000

Microsoft’s strategy is to kill Symbian fast now to create a hole, and then pour WP7 into the hole. So that is what Elop is doing.

The incoming CEO doesn’t mind if this financial year is a disaster. He can blame it on his predecessors.

By: Frank MacGill

Frank MacGill — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:12:56 +0000

Get used to it. Microsoft has captured Nokia and locked it in a dungeon where it can be exploited however Microsoft likes.

By: rickst29

rickst29 — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 01:33:50 +0000

The key highlights are this one: “One of critical things in building ecosystem is to give them a clear road ahead. Windows Phone is a SILVERLIGHT environment. To put multiple tools would dilutive and distracting.”

And this one:

WP is a remarkably elegant device. I’ve used one for a while….The makers of the Microsoft phones have done a great job….
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MS-Nokia’s only goal for Qt, IMO, appears to be maintaining control– for the purpose of preventing any sort of “open governance” which could allow the platform to make progress. Everything which MS-Nokia will do, from now on, will be to benefit WP — or to harm the LGPL version of Qt as much as they possibly can.

Both are key strategies, unfortunately. Nokia wants to “keep Qt” only to strangle it.

By: Buckets of (cold) Water

Buckets of (cold) Water — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:22:45 +0000

[...] nobody would be surprised to see the end of Qt in Nokia. And if you don’t believe or trust Rich Green’s latest communication regarding the future of Qt in Nokia, then I don’t think any speculations or promises from my side will [...]

By: Cod3rror

Cod3rror — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:56:14 +0000

Nice videos,

If Mr. Green is to be believed, then Symbian has got at least 1-2 years. I hope they give it one last push, especially the UI. And also it’s interesting regard the new devices in the pipeline he mentioned.

I’m also intrigued regarding the MeeGo device, dsmobile of the many members here(and on mobile-forums.com) said that the N9 looked really nice. I hope it’s that phone, without QWERTY(Sorry QWERTY fans but nowadays a high end phone is considered a monoblock, Apple showed that a properly done virtual keyboard can be great.)

Anyways, it looks like Nokia is planning to deliver some good phones in 2011. The 1GHz Symbian phones, N9 with MeeGo.

If they do deliver all those promises of:

-1GHz, powerful Symbian phones

-Symbian PR3.0, new Qt UI

-N9, a really high end MeeGo phone with a great, smooth interface.

In 2011, then IMO, they should dump WP7 or at least lower it’s priority by a lot and concentrate back on Symbian and MeeGo.

I WILL NOT BUY A WP7 PHONE, it’s just not functional enough, and I don’t like the UI, I MUCH prefer Symbian’s homescreens with widgets and the “Menu”. Not even WP7.5 interests me much, the multitasking they showed is not “real” and there really are not that many improvements or functions being added.

By: ilovemys60v3

ilovemys60v3 — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:24:58 +0000

elop must be replaced or nokia will be eaten by microsoft. There will only be a possibility for me of buying a window phone when all symbian features are put on wp-nokia and there will be at least 10,000 USEFUL applications. Hope that it will happen before the year ends or people will consider nokia as their last choice or worst is forget that nokia exists.

By: ME

ME — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:11:18 +0000

It’s quite odd that no one on behalf of Nokia talked about a possible rebranding of Symbian? As Green mentioned that they’re looking at Qt as an interesting development for featurephones, my guess would be that Symbian becomes S40?

Also, they haven’t mentioned the elimination of S30. From that perspective the addition of WP as the smartphone strategy IMO would be plausible.

By: Croco

Croco — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:20:22 +0000

I don’t mind if a nice hardware and a decent MeeGo version will be out this year. If the device is good enough it will receive the supportit deserves from the community and at least the enthusiasts will receive a little comfort. In this stage I prefer Nokia’s hardware with MeeGo than Intel’s.